HENP
current driver
Multi-hundreds
Mbits/s and Multi TByte files/day transferred across Atlantic today
SLAC BaBar
experiment already has > PByte stored
Tbits/s and
ExaBytes (1018) stored in a
decade
Data
intensive science:
Astrophysics, Global weather, Bioinformatics, Fusion, seismology
Industries
such as aerospace, medicine, security
Future:
Media
distribution
Gbits/s=2
full length DVD movies/minute
2.36Gbits/s
is equivalent to
Transferring
a full CD in 2.3 seconds (i.e. 1565
CDs/hour)
Transferring 200 full length DVD movies in one hour
(i.e. 1 DVD in
18 seconds)
Will sharing
movies be like sharing music today?